Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical — Page 3
#52
Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:40am
Cabaret anyone?
I couldn't move/speak/breathe for awhile after I saw that.
I couldn't move/speak/breathe for awhile after I saw that.
Does the sun really rise in the east?
Does the earth really spin around the sun?
What's it matter in the least?
What's real to me ain't real to everyone.
Does the earth really spin around the sun?
What's it matter in the least?
What's real to me ain't real to everyone.
#53
Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:33am
Finale B-Rent
"I'm sort of like a child genius without being a child or a genius."~Tim Rice-Oxley
#54
Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:34am
"42nd Street" Revival...the tap number after the bows
#55
Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:41am
"A New Day for Christmas" - ANNIE
"Hard Candy Christmas" - THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS
"Eva's Lament" - EVITA
"Hard Candy Christmas" - THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS
"Eva's Lament" - EVITA
#56
Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:15am
Hairspray
Little Shop Of Horrors- I don't know why but i just love it
Rent
Sweeney Todd
Company
Little Shop Of Horrors- I don't know why but i just love it
Rent
Sweeney Todd
Company
#57
Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:21am
Jersey Boys, Les Miz, & Rent.
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#58
Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:44am
I love the not so flashy GG closing. It just breaks your heart.
(The reprisal of "THe Girl Who Has Everything".)
Flashy-"Rose's Turn"
(The reprisal of "THe Girl Who Has Everything".)
Flashy-"Rose's Turn"
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
#59
Posted: 6/28/07 at 11:01am
I do love Candide's closing very much.
I also enjoy:
Ragtime and Les Miserable
Hairspray was loads of fun...
A Chorus Line was amazing cause it was the first show I ever saw...
I also enjoy:
Ragtime and Les Miserable
Hairspray was loads of fun...
A Chorus Line was amazing cause it was the first show I ever saw...
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#60
Posted: 6/28/07 at 11:03am
Cabaret! The ending is chilling! Rose's Turn rocks pretty hard as well! Oh, and Les Mis too.
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George
#61
Posted: 6/28/07 at 11:23am
In recent years- Hairspray! but i could go back 30 years and name so many. Boy did i buzz out of that first performance esp as Bette Midler was in the row in front of me and was having the best time.
Updated On: 6/28/07 at 11:23 AM
#62
Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:13pm
This is going to be like deja vu...
Hairspray
The Phantom of the Opera (the way the emotions fly back and forth is insane)
Les Miserables (never ceases to make me cry)
Hairspray
The Phantom of the Opera (the way the emotions fly back and forth is insane)
Les Miserables (never ceases to make me cry)
#63
Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:14pm
Hairspray
Company
Jersey Boys--such a sucker for those last three notes
Company
Jersey Boys--such a sucker for those last three notes
#64
Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:21pm
SeanMartin - I like when he says "Any questions?" more.
Ragtime
A Man of No Importance
HOW COULD THESE GO UNMENTIONED
Ragtime
A Man of No Importance
HOW COULD THESE GO UNMENTIONED
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#65
Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:26pm
Pippin! I loved the way it was done with the most recent revival last year. I was awe-struck!
#66
Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:59pm
GYPSY: "Rose's Turn"
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
#67
Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:16pm
Rose's Turn
One
Children Will Listen
One
Children Will Listen
There wouldn't be lights bright enough!
#68
Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:27pm
Pippin's anti-climax (of sorts) at the end.
Rent. With the the girls reprising "Without You" over the boys reprising "No Day Like Today". When they...possible spoiler...
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when they project Mark's film all over the theatre. Gives me goose bumps.
Rent. With the the girls reprising "Without You" over the boys reprising "No Day Like Today". When they...possible spoiler...
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when they project Mark's film all over the theatre. Gives me goose bumps.
#69
Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:29pm
The Les Mis Finale, hands down.
Though, Rose's Turn is a close second IMO...
Though, Rose's Turn is a close second IMO...
#70
Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:48pm
Assassins. Especially the original version that I saw 20 years ago. All the assassins are together and there is a voiceover that thanks them for blazing the trail. Then there is a roll call of OTHER assassins who didn't make it into the musical - Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, etc, etc, etc. The list goes on and on. It's been 20 years and I'm still shaking.
The current ending is good too, but the other one - wow.
The current ending is good too, but the other one - wow.
#71
Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:52pm
"You Can't Stop the Beat" is great! Talk about a closing number where you walk out of a show singing! HA!
The Cabaret revival ending was VERY powerful.
The Cabaret revival ending was VERY powerful.
Jack: For your information, most people who meet me do not know that I am gay.
Will: Jack, blind and deaf people know you're gay. Dead people know you're gay.
Jack: Grace, when you first met me, did you know I was gay?
Grace: My dog knew.
#72
Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:53pm
Oklahoma is great closing number.
Finale from The Secret Garden always touches me.
Finale from The Secret Garden always touches me.
What great ones do the less will prattle of
Updated On: 6/28/07 at 04:53 PM
#73
Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:54pm
"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd"... the door always gets me
And "For Now" from Avenue Q
And "For Now" from Avenue Q
#74
Posted: 6/28/07 at 6:14pm
My votes goes for HAIRSPRAY and LES MIZ. "You Can't Stop the Beat" is just so energetic that you can't help but leave the theatre smiling wide. That final song of LES MIZ (off hand, I'm not sure which reprise of many it is) always moves me greatly.
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#75
Posted: 6/28/07 at 6:42pm
"You Can't Stop The Beat", my first thought too.
On second thought, "Being Alive", especially after just seeing Raul from front row center!
On second thought, "Being Alive", especially after just seeing Raul from front row center!
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